Adventures in Photography and videography
Mar 05 2010
Here’s my newest video posted on Vimeo. This was a fun little experiment. Watercolor from John Rappold on Vimeo. Setup I purchased a small 4×5” clear vase and some food coloring at Walmart. At home, I setup a small table with a piece of 8×10 white cardstock about 8″ behind the vase, and a same [...]
Feb 27 2010
My home is beginning to look like a UPS shipping dock with packages arriving with stuff for my road trip later this year. I’m almost down to the end, and lately have been getting guide books, maps, etc. While reading one of my photo guide books, I was struck by this comment: You will notice [...]
Feb 19 2010
Mayhaps I spoke hastily. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was underwhelmed with the 2010 line up of prosumer camcorders, although I knew at the time Panasonic had not yet announced their prosumer models. Now, the Panasonic HDC-TM700 has been announced, and although there are not a great many new features, I’m probably going to get [...]
Feb 05 2010
Here are the camcorders I’ll be taking on my trip: Sony HDR-HC1 Prior to purchasing the HC1 in March 2006, I had owned a JVC miniDV cam (not so great) and a sony Digital8 (good cam). The HC1 was the rirst consumer camcorder to shoot in the then new HDV format. All I can say [...]
Sep 22 2009
I don’t know what happened, but a month ago I blew the firewire port in my Sony HC1 camcorder. I believe the HC1 was the first consumer HD camcorder made available to the public, released in 2005. It uses the MPEG2 HDV format, and by today’s standards the format is fairly easy to edit natively, [...]
